Show aspirations 0 OF F ROME can the temporal power of the be restored is a question of much t terest erest particularly at a time etc otc of worlds history when everything py y toward great upheavals among the miff eions of the earth the position of or s vatican is believed to have tx strengthened lately especially in ita aad the catholic organs ther i clam clamoring oring for a readjustment of 1 government in favor of the eh church ura one of the papal organs qu quoted the literary digest asserts that avi 1 I cannot be established unless the 1 is restored in his rights as a te ruler temporal rule the paper aask is necessary for the liberty an and d hampered government of the C chris church it to is not the unity of 36 thatis that is regarded dedas as an obstacle to aspirations of the church but th the 1119 W archy it is impossible wo cording according taw tt journal referred to for the italian and the vatican to remain rome together one of them must fw the only solution is the of a republic which could be dona IX fc 7 to is thought without the aid of foretell 1 troops As fax far as these suggestions may b taken to reflect the views of the he head 5 of the catholic church they are hat and cannot tail fall to attract 8 abr in every country where roman catholics are a power they pra that his holiness cannot relinquish ww supposed right to temporal rule inai much as this is regarded as sary to the liberty and the ment of the church they also that in his judgments judgment a republican form of government is but a MOM toward an end A revolutionary leafa lea in italy would receive support church circles provided he would id to establish the capital of the p republic somewhere goutal outside limits of the eternal city thin shift what open confession of the bouto pouto adah of the vatican should be of inter abt t 0 to o the american people ft ts is believed that the secular influx of rome has been extending of we late throughout the world in austria fihe clerical party is supreme and in germany many it holds the balance of power re are reasons for believing that tA fluence in france is growing not W mention the united states fiut it to almost certain that a time will come when unnumbered multitudes of asia acs ni acknowledge the supremacy of shmae this event would result in the repetition to some extent of what took when emperor constantine Constant lne declared christianity the official rell religion ion af pf f the state that gave its officers iwler in the th estate state it furnished them ma of accomplishing by force what they were commissioned to do ky gentle persuasion it placed them tea position to use the sword as a sub for the word it Is not unreal vale to believe that the adoption by the of european civilization add d with it the christianity of rome rott ld furnish the head of that church je isoe needed means for achieving further C gna abets if at present the vatican mm IWO accepted the offer of the protestant lS eror of germany to protect catho in china as an equiha at for clerical support in the retch r of the enormous naval jimaki V bill it is clear enough that the kuan A el lurch church has not lost all her tem strower power and also that she Is wll will use it for her own purposes |